US launch readings from What the Water Gave Me (Black Lawrence Press)

This April the US edition of What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo is being published by Black Lawrence Press. I'll be flying to New York on Wednesday to do four readings there (see below for details) and one upstate in the Catskill Mountains. The first week I'll be in a friend's place in Tribeca, spend Easter weekend at the Bright Hill Center at Treadwell, then stay near Riverside Drive. I'm really looking forward to returning to NY, but I'll also be taking my notebooks with me to work on my writing in between gigs – heaven!

On 1st May I fly to New Mexico to do a reading and workshop, and after that, LA for two more readings, and I'll end up at Santa Cruz on 10 May to do a return reading for Dennis Morton's Poetry Santa Cruz. I wish the California part wasn't so rushed. New Mexico will be an adventure as I've never been there before. It will be good to see old friends and make new ones, get acquainted with their poems. Please come if you are near any of these places and free, and do say hello. I'm very touched by all the dear friends who have organised these events for me and helped to make this tour happen.

Launch readings from What the Water Gave Me (Black Lawrence Press, April 2011)

Bowery Poetry Club, NYC  6pm Saturday 16 April 

Bertha Rogers and Pascale Petit 

308 Bowery, NYC

mail@bowerypoetry.com Phone: 212 614 0505 http://www.bowerypoetry.com 

Juniper, Brooklyn, 5.30pm Sunday 17 April

Margot Farrington & Pascale Petit

Juniper, 112 Berry Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Bright Hill Center, Catskills, NY, 7pm Thursday 21 April

Djelloul Marbrook & Pascale Petit with illustrated reading 

94 Church St, PO Box 193, Treadwell, NY 13846

wordthur@stny.rr.com Phone: +1 607 829 5055 

http://www.brighthillpress.org

Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, 7pm Thursday 28 April

Sally Bliumis-Dunn, William Olsen & Pascale Petit

143 Seventh Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215

events@communitybookstore.net  Phone: (718) 783 3075  

http://www.communitybookstore.net/events  

Cornelia St Café, NYC, 6pm Saturday 30 April 

Mark Doty, Melissa Stein & Pascale Petit

29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY 10014

info@corneliastreetcafe.com  Phone: (212) 989 9319

http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com  

Metta Theatre, Taos, New Mexico, Thursday 5 May

Veronica Golos, Andrea Watson & Pascale Petit reading for Cinco de Mayo

1470 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur, El Prado, New Mexico 87529 

Ruskin Art Club, Los Angeles 3pm Sunday 8 May

Mariano Zaro & Pascale Petit reading

800 S. Plymouth, Los Angeles, CA, 90005

Email: Ekduende@cox.net Phone: (323) 755-3530

Moonday Poetry at Village Books, LA, 7.30pm Monday 9 May

Lois P. Jones & Pascale Petit (illustrated reading)

1049 Swarthmore Ave., Pacific Palisades, California

pero@earthlink.net Phone: (310) 454 4063

http://www.moondaypoetry.com 

Poetry Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, 7.30pm Tuesday 10 May

Rebecca Foust and Pascale Petit

Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz

info@poetrysantacruz.org Phone: (831) 464-8983

http://www.baymoon.com/~poetrysantacruz 

Poetry from Art at Tate Modern online anthology 2011

Last night was the final session in our Poetry from Art Shaping Poems spring course at Tate Modern and was a celebration reading. An online anthology of poems from this term is now up on the Tate website. This is a selection of twenty-three poems from many the participants wrote in the galleries during five classes, responding to Gabriel Orozco's Obit Series and Lintels, Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds, Do Ho Suh's Staircase III and Marcel Duchamp's The Large Glass. 

Many of the poets read their Sunflower Seeds poems last night, as a mark of solidarity, as we had so enjoyed working with Ai Weiwei's field of sunflower seeds in the Turbine Hall and we are very concerned that the Chinese authorities won't disclose his whereabouts since police detained him at Beijing airport on 3 April. Some new poems after Do Ho Suh's ethereal red staircase also emerged, even though we'd only worked with that installation the previous week and this turned out to be another favourite.